A Sparrow's Song To Lift Up the Sky
"The sparrow heard that the sky was falling, and while all the other creatures fled, she asked herself, 'What can I do? I'm just a sparrow.' But then, in a flash of brilliance, she lay on her back,...
View Article15 Year-old's Letter to the Yard Across the Street
When her dad sent her a picture of pending home construction in what had been a vacant “yard” across the street from her home, a 15-year-old felt a sudden emptiness. She started remembering the...
View ArticleHow to Embrace Your Political Enemy
A group of University of Pennsylvania students traveled throughout Pennsylvania to listen to people. They approached strangers in shops, on the street, and in many different venues. Their intention was...
View ArticleHow Does Your Personality Affect Your Happiness?
Research led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University and the University of Tartu in Estonia explores how traits such as extroversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience can significantly...
View ArticleRachelle Jeanty: Finding Spirit in Pain
Rachelle Jeanty gifts us with a few verses of her crystal voice in song, and talks about how she led a luxurious life as a backup singer for a global superstar. Her dream, however, was to be a...
View ArticleFrom Vacant Lots To Edible Green Spaces -- and Community
Food forests are thriving around Boston, and so are the people involved with them. They help heal neglected environments by transforming vacant lots into green spaces that foster climate resiliency,...
View ArticleCan Social Media Keep Indigenous Languages Alive?
In some cases, only a few elderly speakers of the language remain among seventy Indigenous languages in Canada. Instead of written word, people are using social media to help keep the languages alive...
View ArticleThe Hidden Playgrounds of Elephants and Gorillas
Drones and artificial intelligence are helping scientists discover a network of what Indigenous Ba’aka people call bais. They are clearings in the midst of forests where forest elephants, gorillas,...
View ArticleHow to Stop Overthinking Your Happiness
People universally desire to be happy, yet “even when people’s lives are good, many feel less than happy, and may be beset by anxiety and depression.” In fact, philosopher Eric Hoffer said, “The search...
View ArticleBuilding Connections Beat by Beat
An Arts & Healing Initiative uses creative practices like a drum circle to help children express themselves, and build social connections. The intention is to “proliferate kindness, compassion and...
View ArticleForget the four seasons: 72 âmicro-seasons'
In Japan, the ancient agricultural calendar divides the year into 72 micro-seasons, each lasting five days and marked by subtle changes in nature like blooming flowers or the return of swallows. This...
View ArticleWhy This Grocery Store Embraces a Slower Checkout
Waiting in line is an act that many often prefer to skip. In contrast to speedy lanes, some grocery chains are better serving their aging and single household populations by offering a lane where...
View ArticleI See You
In this short video, Daniel Emuna shares his thoughts on how he is able to really see and connect with others. Among them is his desire for people to feel as he wants to feel which is to be “cared for,...
View ArticleFour Stories of Mercy
Enjoy this tender and moving video as Sister Marilyn Lacey shares four tiny moments of mercy - four tiny yet life-changing moments about ordinary people, some of them children, who saw an opportunity...
View ArticleWhen Nature Co-Authors a Song
A song emerged around a campfire in the high forest of Equador where melodies of “echo-locating bats, howler monkeys, rustling leaves and even a subterranean recording of the soil” were crucial to the...
View ArticleWhy Children Perceive Time Slower Than Adults
Researchers are learning how children perceive time, and how “learning to see time through their eyes may be fundamental to a happier human experience.” Many factors are at play, one being emotional...
View ArticleEight Questions That Can Help You Survive Election Stress
In 2024, 43% of American adults have felt more anxious than they did the previous year, the American Psychological Association reports. Three-quarters of respondents identified this year’s presidential...
View ArticleConversation with Paul Van Slambrouck: Reflections on Journalism
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Paul Van Slambrouck grew up with a love of newspapers and its high calling: "You only know the truth that you can come to at a particular moment. It’s not always an...
View ArticleForgiving the Unforgivable
Nine years after a brutal 11-year civil war, a community center in a tiny village in Sierra Leone reflected the community itself -- burned and charred, weeds growing, “left alone and untended.” Then a...
View ArticleHow To Turn Down The Tension in a Conversation
With decades of research, Julia Minson developed a practice that people can very quickly learn to effectively deal with conflict and disagreement, using the acronym HEAR: H is hedging -- speaking with...
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